Street-carfare-box



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(No Model.)

J. R. HARE.

STREET GAR FARE BOX.

Patented MaInZO, 1883.

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J. R. HARE.

, STREET UAR FARE BOX.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN R. HARE, BALTIMORE: MARYLAND.

STREET-CAR FARE-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 274,319, dated March 20, 1883.

Application filed October 14, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN R. HARE, of the city of Baltimore, and State of Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in Street-Gar Fare-Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

I The object of this invention is the construction of a car-fare box in which each fare or deposit is automatically separated from the others, in order that the driver can easily tell at any time whether or not the proper amounts or fares are deposited by the passengers.

The said invention consists in an inclosed box having an inwardly-opening swinging the interior of the car, with a portion of the casing of the box removed to show more fully the interior mechanism. Fig. II is a view of the invention with the outer covering removed, as seen from the exterior of the car. Fig. III is a vertical section of the box,taken on the dotted linercy,.Fig. I. Fig. IV isa View of a part of the invention on an enlarged scale.

Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts in all the views.

A is a part of the front end of the car, and B a portion of the roof of the same.

0 represents one of the forward car-windows. I

D is the casing of the fare-box, which is preferably formed of wood and glass, glass plates being used in the front and rear of the box to allow the driver and passengers to see the fares deposited. The glass plates are represented by c in Fig. III.

E E are revoluble on axes b.

F is an endless belt or band, of rubber, cloth, leather, or other suitable material, placed drums, adapted to turn around the drums E. The outersurface of the band F has projections 0, between which the fares, when deposited, are conducted.

These projections, if the band is of rubber, may be cast or molded with it; but if the band is of other material the said projections can be easily attached. One of the drums, E, has a ratchet plate or disk, G, which,together with the said drum, is partially revolved at each opening of the fare-door H, the said door being connected to the ratchet-diskby means of a link or rod, d, lever e, and pawl f, Backward movement of the drums and ratchet-wheel, in the closing of thefare-door H, is prevented by means of a spring-pawl, I.

K and K are plates to conduct fares, when deposited, to the pockets formed by the projections c on the band F.

L is a lamp for signaling purposes, and M a reflector to throwa portion of the light from the said lampthrough the glass top of the box to the upper surface of the endless belt F. I do not claim, however, the reflector M or its combination with the lamp L.

Upon a passenger depositing his fare, whether the same consists of a coin, a number of coins, or a ticket, it is deflected by the plates K and K, the former of. which'is transparent, to one of the pockets of the endless band. Upon the passenger withdrawing his hand from the fare-opening, and the door he vertical inwardlyopening and gravitating swinging door hinged at its upper end and adapted to. close the fare-aperture, a pair of revoluble drums surrounded by an endless belt or band having pockets on its outer sur face, located below the said fare-aperture, ratchet mechanism to effect the movement of the pdeketed belt in one direction only, glass thelength of one of the fare-pockets, substandeflecting-piates to guide the deposited fares tially as specified. to the endless pocketed belt, and a rod conmeeting the said swinging door with the said JOHN HARE;

ratchet mechanism, whereby, in the move- Witnesses: ment of the said door in depositing a fare, the EDWARD J. DIGGS, said endless belt is moved a distance equal to JOHN WILLIAMS. 

